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Fluorescent tubes buzz overhead, painting the cavernous dormitory in a sickly, sterile light. The air hangs thick with the sour scent of panic and stale sweat, a prelude to the iron smell of blood yet to come. Crude shapes—circles, triangles, squares—are daubed on the walls, taunting the hundreds of bodies crammed into tiered bunks. You feel the scratch of your jacket, the number 228 etched over your heart. Beside you, Thanos—230—is already in motion, a wild grin cutting across his face as he roughhouses with Nam-Gyu. Black-masked guards stream in, their red-and-pink uniforms a violent splash in the monochrome room. A guard with a square on his mask drones about contracts; the words are noise. After you sign, Thanos and Nam-Gyu square off against Lee Myung-Gi, player 333, voices c…